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But your mind works quite fast at the end of a day. You need half an hour until your brain has slowed enough for you to sleep. What is the average salary for an airtrafficcontroller? The ballpark figure is £80,000. It …Daily Telegraph · 4 hours ago

In the wake of several high-profile incidents where airtrafficcontrollers were caught falling asleep while working, the FAA has decided to change its work rules. But it still won't allow controllers to take naps. Why not? "On my watch, controllers will ...Gizmodo · 4/18/2011

When air trafficcontrollersnap while on duty, nothing good can come of this. A passenger plane coming in for a landing had to abort the landing. They were forced to climb back up to 3,000-feet when the pilot's three attempts to contact air traffic ...Examiner · 8/20/2014

It's a national emergency: air traffic controllers have fallen asleep in Reno, Washington, and several other cities. Planes carrying severely ill patients arrive at airports where "nobody" is in charge. The government head of airtrafficcontrol has been ...The Huffington Post · 4/18/2011

The next time TIME’s D.C. Bureau Chief Michael Duffy catches me sleeping at my desk, the top sheet of an National Transportation Safety Board report stuck to my face, I’ll be ready with a response: I was increasing my work performance and alertness ...Swampland Time · ByMassimo Calabresi · 4/26/2011

Air traffic controllers napping in the tower forced a China Eastern Airlines passenger plane to abort its night-time descent into a Wuhan airport, an investigation report found. The incident, which took place on July 8, is the third mishap in two months ...News Max · 8/20/2014

WASHINGTON – Air trafficcontrollers are still working schedules known as “rattlers” that make it likely they’ll get little or no sleep before overnight shifts, more than three years after a series of incidents involving controllers sleeping on the ...Courier Post · ByJoan Lowy · 6/14/2014

The AirTrafficControl System Command Center in Warrenton ... Dr. Brent Blue, a senior FAA medical examiner, was one of the many who critiqued the FAA's proposed sleep-apnea policy for pilot medical... It seems …AVweb · 1 day ago

Sleeping on the job could be one of several ways to help prevent future accidents involving airtrafficcontrollers. Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., said he's hopeful that the attention generated by the recent ...NBC Washington 4 · 4/16/2011

Washington (AP) - The best solution to the problem of sleepy air traffic controllers is more sleeping on the job, scientists say. But that would be a radical change for the Federal Aviation Administration. Current regulations forbid sleeping at work, even ...CNS News · 4/15/2011